CubeSat Scrum (by APS PIPELINE)

This repository contains CubeSat Scrum objectives, lesson plan, and instructor notes. These materials were developed with support of the APS PIPELINE project

Learning objectives

Explain what agile management is and how it differs from waterfall
Understand how agile management can be used in student projects
Explore a 3-4 hour activity for you to introduce agile management
Experience empowerment that students feel when using agile management

Required materials

The paper templates are available in this repository. For each team print a copy of these templates on card stock (65 lbs weight works well, heavier becomes difficult to fold, user story cards on p45 through end can be 2-up). You will also need to get some easily obtained crafts materials.

Additional teaching materials for the CubeSat Scrum workshop, including K-12 lesson plans developed by students at Old Dominion University, are available at https://cubesatscrum.com/ or directly on DropBox.

Schedule and roles

This activity will take up to 4 hours to complete. A suggested schedule is available. You may also want to consider the different roles that all participants in the activity will be asked to play.

Although it is possible (if not recommended) to speed up this activity, this is not recommended in a first attempt at implementing the activity. The highest priority components are the iterative nature (more than 1 sprint), the use of a kanban board (and time to facilitate this), and the retrospection during the activity. The competitive nature makes the activity more valuable with 2 smaller teams rather than 1 larger team.

Presentations

Several presentations are available about this work:

APS April 2019 (pdf): contributed presentation about agile management at William & Mary,
AAPT Summer Meeting 2019 (pdf): presentation in support of this activity offered to physics educators.
APS Webinar 2019 (pdf): presentation for educators in webinar series by the APS.

Feedback?

If you implement this activity at your institution, please let us know about your experiences. If you have any questions, feel free to contact us. If you wish support or coaching, we may be able to work this out as well.

License

Unless otherwise noted, the contents of this repository are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution - Non Commercial - Share Alike 4.0 International license. For details, refer to the license.

Contributors

CubeSat Scrum templates on https://cubesatscrum.com/ developed by Thomas Friend and Adam Beck at Berkana Enterprise Consulting (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
Instructor notes and presentations by Wouter Deconinck (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, supported in part by the NSF under Grant No. DUE-1625872)
Limited graphics in presentations by Scaled Agile Inc. (fair use exemption for limited educational non-profit use)

Acknowledgment and disclaimer

This material is based upon work supported in part by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. DUE-1625872. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.